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After Clemson’s death, Tillman helped lead the political fight to have the state accept Clemson’s bequest, and he was appointed by Clemson as one of the original seven successor trustees of Clemson Agricultural College.
Apr 11, 2024 · Ben Tillman, U.S. populist politician who championed agrarian reform and white supremacy. He served as governor of South Carolina (1890–94) and in the U.S. Senate (1895–1918) and helped found Clemson University. An unabashed racist, he was a member of the terrorist white supremacist Red Shirts.
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Bibliography. Further reading. External links. Benjamin Tillman. Benjamin Ryan Tillman (August 11, 1847 – July 3, 1918) was a politician of the Democratic Party who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918.
Jul 14, 2020 · His name is also on a building at Clemson University. He was a longtime senator from the state, serving from 1895 to 1918. He was governor before that. And he was an ardent racist who terrorized...
Jun 28, 2016 · In 1891 he refused federal aid for Clemson if that would require him to accept a proportionate amount of aid for black higher education at Claflin. He took popular but economically inconsequential stands against railroads and the state-chartered phosphate monopoly.
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Jun 17, 2020 · Who was Ben Tillman: South Carolina's racial demagogue pioneer. SOUTH CAROLINA. The shocking history of Ben Tillman and how South Carolina still honors the violent racist. Carol Motsinger....
Feb 19, 2015 · Benjamin Tillman was a senator from South Carolina in the 1890s and one of Clemson University's founders. He also happened to be a raging, notorious white supremacist.
